Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

The whole inner Solar System was blasted with intense plasma back in May. Most of it came from a single extremely active sunspot called AR3664. This was responsible for a coronal mass ejection leading ...

Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System, exhibits a uniquely dynamic magnetosphere that, despite its relatively weak intrinsic magnetic field, undergoes rapid and complex interactions with ...

Artist’s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft with a view of Mercury in the background. Illustration: ESA/ATG medialab; Mercury: NASA/JPL For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have been ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. German astronomer ...

All of our solar system’s planets are lining up in the night sky at once this week. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a great ...

Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...